Perforce 2009.1.202559 Beta / 2008.2.184363

The client/server architecture scales to hundreds of users and millions of codelines. Perforce works well even on limited bandwidth networks. The servers repository sits on a central host; client workspaces can be anywhere on the network -- around the office or the world.
Atomic change transactions ensure access to a consistent repository state at any point in time. Inter-File Branching helps to manage multiple development lines and easily integrate changes between branches. Perforces self-maintaining and reliable database keeps data safe.
The command-line client is 100% scriptable, 100% portable and available on more than 50 platforms. The Windows GUI and browser-based clients provide a user interface for all SCM tasks.
Perforce integrates with VisualStudio.NET, Visual C++, Visual Basic, JBuilder, CodeWarrior, Control Center, Source Forge, and others, so users can access and update files stored in Perforce depots from within the tool of their choice. The Perforce Plug-in for Microsoft Office brings Perforce right into the menus of Microsoft World, Excel, and PowerPoint.
The Perforce Reporting System will track metrics like the number of changes in a release or who has files open for edit.
Perforce also provides basic built-in defect tracking, is integrated with several leading defect tracking systems, and includes a kit that allows users to integrate Perforce with the defect tracker of their choice.

Benefits:

1. Proven SCM Solution: Perforce is a proven SCM solution for your valuable code and digital assets. With twelve years of product evolution, Perforce is trusted by over 4,800 customers employing more than 280,000 users.
2. Unlimited Scalability: A high performance architecture scales with the growth of your organization from two users to 8,000 and more. Perforce supports sites with millions of changes and terabytes of versioned data.
3. Fast SCM Operations: Perforce server and client programs communicate over a highly-tuned streaming message protocol, so check-outs and check-ins are fast. Users won't get frustrated and bypass your development process.
4. Full-Featured Cross-platform Graphical Interfaces: With a native cross-platform graphical interface and numerous IDE integrations, Perforce supports the way you're used to working.
5. Distributed Development: Remote users will experience quick response times and have real-time access to project activity and status information.
6. Integration with Best-of-Breed ALM Solutions: An open architecture supports integrations with your preferred IDEs and a wide variety of Application Lifecycle Management tools.
7. Easy Administration: Regardless of the number of servers and platforms, Perforce makes administration easy through a drag and drop administration tool and a highly scriptable command-line client.
8. Flexible, Fast, and Intuitive Branch and Merge Capability: Perforce's unique Inter-File Branching system simplifies branch and merge operations that retain all integration history.
9. Straightforward Licensing and Pricing: A published price list, with built-in tiered discounts and no hidden costs makes for a transparent and straightforward sales experience. You only buy what you need when you need it.
10. World-class Technical Support: Our world-class technical support organization is known and respected for its expertise and rapid resolution of even the most complex customer issues.

Major Features:

1. Perforce Server - The Perforce Server manages the Perforce central file repository, tracks Perforce user operations and records activity in the Perforce SCM database.
2. Perforce Visual Client - The Perforce Visual Client offers developers on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD a complete graphical interface to Perforce and includes a built-in merge tool.
3. Perforce for Windows - The Perforce Windows Client is designed to provide developers with quick and easy access to Perforce via the familiar Windows Explorer look and feel.
4. Command-Line Interface - P4, the Perforce Command-Line Client, is self-contained, highly scriptable and available on over 50 platforms.
5. Distributed Development - The Perforce Proxy offers caching technology to provide remote users with quicker response times and real-time access to project activity and status information.
6. Reporting - The Perforce Reporting System, P4Report, offers query and reporting capability. Based on ODBC, P4Report can be accessed by popular reporting tools including Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access and Excel.
7. Web Interface - The Perforce Web Client turns any Web browser into a complete user interface to Perforce.
8. Merge Tools - Perforce provides graphical and text-based merge tools to handle file merging and comparisons. Perforce client applications can also be configured to work with external merge tools.
9. Defect Tracking - In addition to providing basic built-in defect tracking, integrations between Perforce and several leading defect tracking systems are also available.
10. Process Automation - Perforces open and scriptable architecture includes six types of server triggers, enabling you to better integrate Perforce with testing, build automation, and workflow tools.
11. IDE Integrations - Interact with Perforce directly from within IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland JBuilder and Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
12. Microsoft Office Integration - The Perforce Plug-in for Microsoft Office (P4OFC) works with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Powerpoint. Users of Microsoft Office can update documents stored in Perforce without leaving the familiar Office environment.

Enhancements:

• The Integrate dialog has been redesigned to clarify the information that must be entered.
• Integrate now supports multiple file and directory integration.
• Integrate dialog: revision range specification is more explicit.
• When the detail is hidden, a summary is displayed. The default specifier has been changed from revision number to changelist.
• Advanced flags have been moved from the main dialog to a popup dialog. To display the popup, click "Advanced Options...".
• Also, when the -f (force) option is selected, a warning is displayed in the main dialog.
• Integrate dialog: added the ability to save file sources and targets as a branchview.
• When doing an integrate using a branchview, restricting the integrate to specific paths as a source or target, the dialog now determines which side of the branchview the paths lie on and provides feedback if the specified path will not be integrated. The source/to radio buttons align themselves the direction of the branchview arrow and link to it, and changing one changes the other to clarify the direction of integration.
• The Integrate dialog remembers the five most-recently-used branchviews.
• Users can now do a folder diff based on the selected branchview.
• Dialog no longer closes if there are errors in the integration.
• Integrate preview has been revamped.
• Instead of a text window that simply lists all the server output, it now displays a side-by-side view, with the "from" revision list on the left and the "to" revision on the right.
• Types of integrate are color coded as follows: errors = red; branches = beige; merges = blue.